By Kwon Mee-yooThe culture ministry will send out 10 cultural producers to the U.S., Europe and Asia to promote Korean culture through video content by young creators.

The "Overseas Culture PD" program is co-organized with the Korea Culture Information Service Agency (KCISA), an affiliate of the ministry.

The program was launched in 2012 and for seven years participants have produced 2,167 videos and 320 blog posts introducing Korean culture abroad. The channel youtube.com/cultureportal has over 13,100 subscribers and the videos have reached over 5.5 million views in all.

This year, 10 chosen producers are sent to Los Angeles, Madrid, Rome, Tokyo, Beijing and Warsaw as well as four new additions to the program, Buenos Aires of Argentina, Astana of Kazakhstan, Ankara of Turkey and Hong Kong.

They will start working Monday until December and create media content to promote Korean culture.

"We are dispatching producers to four new cities and they will report hallyu news in lesser-known regions such as South America and Central Asia. We will support the program to contribute to the culture industry of Korea," a KCISA official said.

The agency also runs the "Culture PD" program domestically, in which 55 producers create diverse cultural content, including promotional videos for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic and Paralympic Games.